ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 Mobile IGP vs ATI HD 2900 XT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking931not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.05no data
Power efficiency0.55no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code nameR600RS690
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date14 May 2007 (17 years ago)28 February 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320no data
Core clock speed743 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors720 million120 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)215 Wattno data
Texture fill rate11.891.600
Floating-point processing power0.4755 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs164

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width512 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed828 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth106.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.0 (10_0)9.0b (9_2)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2007 28 February 2007

ATI HD 2900 XT has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 2900 XT and Radeon Xpress 1250 Mobile IGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 2900 XT is a desktop card while Radeon Xpress 1250 Mobile IGP is a notebook one.


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